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I've got a DSR708 (DirecTV Tivo) with an upgraded hard drive. Upon powering up from a cold start, it gets stuck on the "Welcome. Powering up..." screen. Once in about a dozen attempts it actually booted completely and worked for a few hours, but then froze and went back to the original power up problem.
I'm relatively sure the hard drive is not the culprit for two reasons: 1) the hard drive is a relatively new Seagate upgrade drive (less than a year) and 2) when I did the upgrade, I saved the original drive from the unit - which was still functional at the time of the upgrade. Swapping the original drive back into the unit doesn't make a difference - it still gets stuck on the Powering up screen.
So I suspect bad hardware elsewhere in the system - power supply or something on the motherboard.
My main question is this: given that there is a high likelihood the hard drive is still good, is there any way at all to fix/replace the hardware such that I can save the programming on my current drive? I know that a simple swap of the drive into a replacement unit won't do it because the drive and motherboard are "married" somehow, but was hoping either to repair my current DVR or find a way to download my current programming into a new machine - even if that requires a new drive, too.
I've got a DSR708 (DirecTV Tivo) with an upgraded hard drive. Upon powering up from a cold start, it gets stuck on the "Welcome. Powering up..." screen. Once in about a dozen attempts it actually booted completely and worked for a few hours, but then froze and went back to the original power up problem.
I'm relatively sure the hard drive is not the culprit for two reasons: 1) the hard drive is a relatively new Seagate upgrade drive (less than a year) and 2) when I did the upgrade, I saved the original drive from the unit - which was still functional at the time of the upgrade. Swapping the original drive back into the unit doesn't make a difference - it still gets stuck on the Powering up screen.
So I suspect bad hardware elsewhere in the system - power supply or something on the motherboard.
My main question is this: given that there is a high likelihood the hard drive is still good, is there any way at all to fix/replace the hardware such that I can save the programming on my current drive? I know that a simple swap of the drive into a replacement unit won't do it because the drive and motherboard are "married" somehow, but was hoping either to repair my current DVR or find a way to download my current programming into a new machine - even if that requires a new drive, too.
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